Change Your Looks, Change Your Life: Quick Fixes and Cosmetic Surgery Solutions for Looking Younger, Feeling Healthier, and Living Better - Softcover

Copeland, Dr. Michelle

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060518979 ISBN 13: 9780060518974

Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks, 2004

Synopsis

What if our lives, social and professional, could be changed for the better by cosmetic surgery or even a simple lunch-hour procedure?

A recognized leader in the plastic surgery field, Dr. Copeland draws on years of clinical experience to guide readers through the myriad of options for cosmetic enhancement. With input from dozens of patients, complex-sounding procedures - from face-lifts and breast surgery to liposuction and tummy tucks - are demystified and defined, enabling readers to approach their doctors with confidence and gain the knowledge necessary to make an informed decision.

Dr. Copeland also details nonsurgical "lunchtime fixes" such as Botox injections, light-laser treatments, and collagen injections, as well as topical peels and creams to banish wrinkles and improve appearance without recovery time.

If you are among the increasing number of men and women who want to look younger, feel healthier, and live better than you ever thought possible, Dr. Copeland's skillful advice will inspire you to take control of your own cosmetic wellness.

About this title

About the Author

Dr. Michelle Copeland is a diplomate of the National Board of Plastic Surgery, an assistant professor of clinical surgery at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, and attending surgeon in plastic and reconstructive surgery at the Mount Sinai Hospital. Dr. Copeland is one of the most prominent female plastic surgeons in the United States and the first to graduate from Harvard with a dual degree in plastic surgery and dentistry. She has a private practice in New York City.

From Publishers Weekly

Copeland is assistant professor of clinical surgery at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and attending surgeon in plastic and reconstructive surgery at the Mount Sinai Hospital—as well as a "diplomat" of the National Board of Plastic Surgery; Postman is a senior features editor at Elle, who has also written for Glamour and Mademoiselle. The diction they cook up for this advice book meshes medical and fashion expertise in a manner that is somewhat unnerving; at one point, their first person text notes that "Helping people to imagine how their looks—and, by extension, their lives—can improve is the most challenging and rewarding" aspect of what Copeland does for a living. "Fixes" and procedures include endoscopic forehead lifts, "collagen or fat injections in the face to strategically plump it up," neck lipectomy (whereby "gobble neck" is "sucked away") and many others, carefully explained and illustrated by before and after pictures. The authors raise the potential "red flags" that should prevent one from undergoing surgery (including depression and pregnancy), but they also define various "light-bulb moments"—a dopey catch-phrase to refer to the things that bring people to seek surgery or other interventions. The book takes readers from making the cosmetic surgery decision through finding a doctor, to "Skin Savers and Quick Fixes" that don’t involves surgery, and separate chapters on the face, breasts (the word "perky" is used repeatedly), body contouring, and healing that do. Copeland is an enthusiastic advocate of surgical procedures, and tries to back that enthusiasm with anecdotal and scientific evidence regarding surgery’s effects, for some, on self-esteem and health. The pack is thick with similar books, but the Sinai name carries a lot of clout (at least in New York) as does that of Elle, and the book’s upbeat, go-go encouragement is infectious. Some readers, however, may find themselves admiring the "before" pictures more than the "afters," and wondering about those light-bulb moments.
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Edition details

• Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0060518979
• ISBN 13: 9780060518974
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 288